Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

#NoNaturalDisasters applies to earthquakes as well as climate hazards. In almost all temblors, it's buildings that kill people, not the shaking itself. I'll never forget walking around Istanbul with an engineer pointing out apartment buildings he called "rubble in waiting." https://bit.ly/istanquake #disasterrisk #resilience

Quick post on the Congressional referrals from me:

Jan 6 Congressional referrals: what are they, and what does it mean?
> The referrals don't compel DOJ to act. But they don't have to.

https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/jan-6-congressional-referrals-what

You’ll be unsurprised to learn that the incident with the supposed Musk stalker appears to have nothing to do with the jet tracking account. It occurred 26 miles from the airport, and a full day after ElonJet placed the plane in Los Angeles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/

Wait for it.. 😂

Deep breath..... Going all in with a full intro because I've seen the cool kids do it.

I'm a doctor of wine. With a floppy hat to prove it.

Laboratory nomad for over 12 years bouncing around the globe for #TB, outbreaks or general labrat stuff.

When not in a lab, I'm travelling. Probably hiking or hitching somewhere or drinking tea; maybe gin.

Otherwise I'm stitching swears or lampshades or something.

#introduction #newby #DontJudgeMe #SciNerd #Science #photography #outdoors #craft #art

19 December 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marta Weisz, was born in Sárköz. During the war, she lived in Szatmárnémeti.

On 31 May 1944, she was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Marta was the daughter of Bandi (fate unknown) and Klari. She had an elder brother Robert. Klari & the children were most probably murdered in a gas chamber together.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #children #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #antisemitism #genocide #girl #remember #NeverForget #memory #history

The deadline to nominate a government agency for The Foilies is coming up. Send us your stories of ridiculous FOIA redactions and rejections by Jan. 6. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2022/dec/19/have-an-open-records-horror-story-shine-a-light/

Today's #XKCD is just delightful. Check it out and have fun zooming around the universe! https://xkcd.com/2712/

(Addendum: I vote we make "doot" an official #volcanology term.)

19 December 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Frank Emanuel Polak, was born in Amsterdam.

In February 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #children #Amsterdam #Netherlands

There are accounts from the first settlers to Turtle Island that the forests were so abundant with food, and that the #indigenous folks they encountered seemed to eat along their pathways while traveling easily. This wasn't an accident. The forests were cultivated food forests, a great technological advance that was then mostly decimated, chopped down, and made into monocrops of things like wheat and corn. #permaculture and #foodforests are Indigenous innovations. Let's bring them back!

All Quiet on the Martian Front.

No dust devils or dust movement detected on Sol 3682 by the Curiosity Rover in this 360 degree NavCam survey

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Last week, we released https://science.data.nasa.gov/

This site includes links to the Science Data Repositories holding the data from NASA missions from Earth, Heliophysics, Planetary, Astrophysics, and Biological and Physical Sciences. The data collections in these repositories can be searched from https://science.data.nasa.gov/search

This includes our latest thematic data repository that shares opacities that can be used to study the atmospheres of exoplanets: https://science.data.nasa.gov/opacities/

#NASA #OpenScience

If you're getting a manuscript final ready for the end of the year, my advice is: don't submit it to a journal now, it will only create frustration as editors and reviewers take holidays while journals are submerged with "managed to finish in 2022" manuscripts. Rather, preprint it now, and submit mid January, with the benefit of feedback and time to think, and editors and reviewers now slightly more available. #preprint #protip